Since the inception of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology
have attracted an increasing interest from both academia and industry. Among various core …

The past decade has witnessed the rapid evolution in blockchain technologies, which has
attracted tremendous interests from both the research communities and industries. The …

The virtual world created by the development of the Internet, computers, artificial intelligence
(AI), and hardware technologies have brought various degrees of digital transformation to …

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow parties to participate in financial markets while
retaining full custody of their funds. However, the transparency of blockchain-based DEX in …

SBFT is a state of the art Byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication system that
addresses the challenges of scalability, decentralization and global geo-replication. SBFT is …

Blockchain platforms and languages for writing smart contracts are becoming increasingly
popular. However, smart contracts and blockchain applications are developed through non …

As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Trusted third parties (TTPs) are frequently used for serving as an authority to issue and verify
transactions in applications. Although the TTP-based paradigm provides customers with …

Recent advances in the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) provide plenty of opportunities for
various industries. To address the security and efficiency issues of the massive IIoT data …

The rise of centralized mining pools for risk sharing does not necessarily undermine the
decentralization required for blockchains: because of miners' cross-pool diversification and …